Charleston County Recycling Center Sorting Process

[charlestonspots]

There are two separate streams...commingled and paper. This is for the commingled stuff. The paper gets sorted out in a different part of the building. If I remember correctly, it's most done manually to weed the corrugated and paperboard out of the higher-grade office paper.

[proudchristian77]

WOW THATS REALLY COOL

[JustinFromSydney]

It moves so fast - surely they would miss things?

[charlestonspots]

Supposedly they take the pile of stuff that goes off the end of this conveyor and run it through once more so they get well over 95% of recycled material out.